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1426 [lbo-talk] Arnie, Blair, Therapy Culture -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 5 October 2003 HASTA LA VISTA, BABY Do the voters of California care that Arnold Schwarzenegger was a 'serial groper'? The possibility that they do not has scandalised liberal commentators, as the surprise candidate and Hollywood actor continued to outperform his Democrat rivals in the polls. This week mounting allegations forced a partial admission from Schwarzenegger that had his critics scenting blood - but to their dismay, Schwarzenegger's supporters appear unmoved by the all ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Oct 5 04:50:13 PDT 2003

1427 [lbo-talk] The new anti-Semitism? -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 30 November 2003 THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM? The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia shelved a report on anti-Semitism fearing that its conclusions - blaming 'young Muslims' for attacks on Jewish targets ­ were too inflammatory. Speaking in Toronto, former CIA director James Woolsey saw in European anti- Semitism 'the first breath of totalitarianism'. German MP Martin Hohmann caused outrage when he likened the Holocaust with the massacres conducted by Jewish comm ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 30 15:16:25 PST 2003

1428 [lbo-talk] Unwilling coalition -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 November 2003 IS THE COALITION WILLING? US President George W Bush's state visit to 'our closest ally' Britain ought to have been a triumphal affair, in the year that the 'Coalition of the Willing' confounded critics by its prompt overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Instead the two leaders delivered ashen-faced and teeth-gritted denunciations of the latest terrorist attack on the British Consul in Istanbul that left 26 dead. The impression of an embattled ruling cliq ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 23 05:03:18 PST 2003

1429 [lbo-talk] Dad's rights, Royal rumour -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 9 November 2003 DAD'S RIGHTS? 'Spiderman' David Chick held up the London traffic for days by occupying a 150 ft crane - the latest in a series of protests by the Justice-4-Fathers organisation. Justice-4-Fathers think that the courts are biased against fathers, especially over access rights to children where parents separate. Justice-4-Fathers has caught public attention not just for its stunts, but also by its use of the language of victimisation. On their website, founder Matth ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 9 05:32:00 PST 2003

1430 [lbo-talk] What is the Prince Charles rumour? -- rank: 1000

Prince Charles' press secretary took the unusual step of denying a rumour whose substance cannot be reported in the British press. Can any non-Britons enlighten us? [The version that I have heard is that the Prince was the passive partner in a homosexual act with his butler - the stuff of newspaper fantasy, it seems to me.] The press here report that it was reported in full in La Repubblica, Italy, but I couldn't find it there. -- James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Nov 8 00:04:43 PST 2003

1431 [lbo-talk] San Diego, Royal Mail -- rank: 1000

GLOATING WHILE SAN DIEGO BURNS Fires in San Diego County have taken seventeen lives, burned a thousand homes and evacuated one hundred times as many. But for many commentators, the fires represent a kind of justice, retribution for San Diego's suburban hubris. From the Eastern seaboard, the New York Times editorialised 'unless humans set limits on development, nature certainly will' (30 October 2003). Chiding the San Diegans for leaving Los Angeles the Times warned 'You can withdraw into nature ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Nov 2 05:26:45 PST 2003

1432 [lbo-talk] Terror, Security Council -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 25 May 2003 WILL SECURITY EVER BE STEPPED DOWN? The placing of concrete blocks around the Houses of Parliament 'is not in response to a specific threat' according to Whitehall officials and the Metropolitan Police. If so, this measure shows the extent to which the authorities are now caught between a rock and a hard place in maintaining alertness, but not alarm, amongst the public for the war on terror. On the one hand, our vulnerabilities and the need for vigilance have consiste ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun May 25 06:51:36 PDT 2003

1433 [lbo-talk] Work-life, 'Steak Knife', Terror -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 18 May 2003 THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE A growing belief that we are all over-worked has led for calls to quit the rat-race. Writers and researchers as varied as British pop-psychologist Oliver Sacks, US shorter-hours campaigner Juliet Schor (author of The Overworked American) and one-time conservative ideologue John Gray, can all be found bemoaning the treadmill of modern capitalism. The idea that the work-life balance should shift in favour of family and leisure is gaining ground - w ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat May 17 23:27:06 PDT 2003

1434 [lbo-talk] Short, Abuse, Oil -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 11 May 2003 SHORT SHRIFT Clare Short's resignation as Overseas Development minister from Tony Blair's cabinet protests that assurances given her about the role of the United Nations in the redevelopment of post war Iraq were breached. But it is naïve to think that the military occupation of Iraq is made legitimate by the presence of the United Nations (UN). As a fallback position, the desire of left-wingers like Short to restrain US power with the UN misses the point. The United ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon May 12 06:35:40 PDT 2003

1435 [lbo-talk] Suicide bombers -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 4 May 2003 TESTING PILGRIMAGES IN THE HOLY LAND Two Pakistanis from Derby in England, Mohammed Hanif and Sharif Khan, went as human bombs to Israel - the first killed himself and three Israelis, the second is still on the run after his bomb failed. In Britain there has been media soul-searching over the unprecedented recruitment of British Muslims as Palestinian suicide-bombers. But the truth is that there is nothing unprecedented about westerners traveling to the Holy Land to te ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun May 4 03:29:34 PDT 2003

1436 school protests, reconstruction -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 23 March 2003 BUNKING-OFF BLAIR'S CIVICS CLASS On the day the second Gulf War started British school children protested in London Liverpool, Birmingham and other towns and cities. Five thousand swelled the demos in Parliament Square. The school students' protests sum up not only the failure of military campaign to overcome disaffection and, more widely, the inability of the authorities to transmit their beliefs to a younger generation. According to the police and media, the prote ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 23 05:01:26 PST 2003

1437 War and anti war -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 16 March 2003 NO WAY TO RUN A WAR The 'pro-war' coalition of Britain, America and Spain meeting today in the Azores must be reflecting on how spectacularly they have failed to make their case. From the offset the campaign against Iraq was fudged. Senior military figures in the US, along with substantial parts of the intelligence services aired their doubts in public. So-called 'hawks' in the administration were tempted to demonstrate their resolve precisely because of the doubts ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 16 05:01:56 PST 2003

1438 Tony Pancake -- rank: 1000

In message <200303082158.QAA17471 at dont.panix.com>, lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> writes >Workers' Councils >PANNEKOEK, Anton > >AK Press >pb >ISBN: 1902593561 >$15.00 > >"Good, solid, working-class literature." Noam Chomsky is this the same text as Serge Bricanier's 'Anton Pannekoek and Workers' Councils, published by Telos Press? -- James Heartfield http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/james1.htm

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 11 11:34:32 PST 2003

1439 War and anti-war -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 9 March 2003 TWO ROUTES TO DISASTER Prevarication at the United Nations' Security Council maps out not one but two routes to disaster. The collapse of the Western alliance might - just might - provide a breathing space for Iraqis. The alternative to war is not freedom, but only a continuation of Iraq's status as vassal state. Opponents of war take heart from the restraint that France, Germany, Russia and China have placed upon American power. But a multi-polar world favoured by t ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Mar 8 13:55:48 PST 2003

1440 US, Blair, Waco -- rank: 1000

The WEEK ending 2 March 2003 US POWER WANES Despite the belief amongst anti-war demonstrators across the world that American imperialism is on the rise, the current international turmoil shows US power in the world waning. This week evidence of the decline in US authority became unavoidable when the Turkish parliament failed to vote a motion allowing American troops to operate from their soil. The Turkish vote, which the government had already postponed twice for fear of losing, is doubly humili ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Mar 2 01:29:29 PST 2003